Nanjing Agricultural University is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education. Its good majors are biological science, agricultural mechanization and automation, food science and engineering, horticulture, agricultural resources and environment, land resources management, animal science, plant protection, agronomy, animal medicine, agricultural and forestry economic management, etc., all of which are national majors.

The strongest disciplines of Nanjing Agricultural University are crop science, agricultural resources and environment, plant protection and economic management of agriculture and forestry. These subjects got A+ in the fourth round of subject evaluation on 20 17, ranking first in the country. Other strong disciplines include public administration (score A), food science and engineering, and horticulture (score A-).